June 27: Today you will be with Prof Zuniga. Be good, be polite and work hard.
There are 2 things to finish and hand in today.
1. Go back to google classroom and make sure you have finished your findings and recommendations for Mr Abel. Be very clear and concise, you are required to do at least 5.
2. Task #2: We have talked a lot about local energy, energy production and energy flow. Today we will look at energy and how it flows though ecosystems. With a partner complete the following virtual lab on energy transfer through ecosystems. Start with the first one, if you finish it or cannot load it for any reason begin on the related second one. Be sure to complete all tables and journal questions on a the google doc below.
June 13th: Today we finished our ac presentations and energy awareness symbols.
Next week (June 20th) we will have a short AC quiz on the following:
The principle of refrigeration: Basic Refrigeration Cycle.
This will be the quiz question
How does a liquid changing states (liquid to gas back to liquid.......) result in a room cooling down.
maybe this site can help you. DO NOT MEMORIZE. You will need to come up with your own way of explaining how this works, you will be able to draw a diagram to assist you.
May 30: Good day all. Minor change to the schedule, Mrs Rachel will be with you today, bee good.
Your 'how an air conditioner works' project will be due next week as I am away this week. For today we will begin our La Paz energy usage survey and energy conservation symbol. You have 2 things to do today in your pairs from last week.
Part 1:
In order to help conserve energy at the school we first need to understand the patters of usage. To learn about how teachers use energy we are going to focus on the air conditioners and when/how they are being used.
a. You are to create 5 survey questions that will help us gather the information we need in order to understand how each teacher uses the air conditioners in their room. Here is my example, you have to come up with 5 unique questions that will help us achieve our goal. We will choose the 15 or 20 best ones next week before we conduct the survey
i.e Mr Seans question for Mr Sean: At what temperature do you set the air conditioner thermostat?
Write your 5 questions on a google doc.
Take your time and make sure your questions are grammatically correct, concise and will generate valuable data for our understanding.
Part 2
b. You are likely familiar with the following international symbols........
You and your pair will spend the rest of the period mocking up the first draft of your symbol. The school community will be voting on the most effective one that we can publish. The goal of your symbol is to satisfy in communicating the following:
1.Are you aware if your air conditioner is running?
2. Have you considered if you require the air conditioner at this time or is it on because of habit, because someone else left it running or because it turns on automatically?
Ideally we want people who view your symbol at the entrance of a room to ask themselves if the air conditioner is required or could it be turned down or off?
It can be in color or black and white
This is a great opportunity to be creative, who knows, your symbol may actually become the next international standard for reducing dependence on air conditioners
Your first draft must be hand drawn and on the back you should provide some text outlining your reasoning for why you designed it the way you did.
The symbol and the survey questions will be due next Tuesday along with your air conditioner work.
May 23: Mr Sean will be away today. You are to work in pairs to complete the following task, remember I am expecting extended effort this term
Using the following pages as a guide, you are to complete a simple one page description of how an air conditioner works. Your audience are the year 7's so you must use appropriate language and an explanation that they can understand.You will present your understanding next week using only your knowledge and a few board markers, no notes and no slides.
Include a diagram you created to explain how the system works.
Be sure to explain everything in your own words, anything plagiarized (cut and pasted) from the document or online will not be accepted and you will have to repeat the activity at lunch. Be sure to cite any sources that you have used.
February 28: Today you will be with Miss Amy. Remember to make sure you have your homework done from last period and we will be having a quiz next week after Nicole and Daniels presentation
February 14: view the following animation and make a paragraph summary of how it works in your own words. Include a labelled diagram
January 24: Good day, today you will be with Miss Erika. You know what you have to do for your mini lessons so make sure you use this time wisely.
Remember you are creating a lesson not just a presentation so think about how you plan to conduct the lesson and how much time each part is going to take. You must include:
-General content/information about your chosen alternate energy source
-Country specific content/information about your chosen alternate energy source
-An activity that will enhance the learning experience (a word search is a game not an activity, it should be considered an extra activity but not the main one).
-A review/summary section at the end
Mini lessons will begin next week and will contribute to your progress report grade.
January 3: Happy new year. Today we continued to work on our Alternative energy lessons:
Homework: Read the following article (The second part 'A roadside breeze' by Rachael Pizzolato) and watch the video. Write a paragraph to summarize what she did and write 3 things she said she would do next time to improve on her experiment.
November 21: Today you will be with Miss Daniela, you are going to spend a few minutes looking at how to write your letters for your alternative energy presentation. Remember you need to contact 4 countries (Costa Rica, + another Spanish speaking country + 2 others) today you will be working on the Spanish letter. The details of what information you are asking for are in the attached document.
November 18: We have begun our alternative energy presentations. This week we will be creating our letters of information request for 4 countries. You will need to include current innovative solutions in your presentations so for this weeks homework....
For H/W: Visit the site below and read the 4 pages (Home, The challenge, the solution, the technology) and write a summary paragraph (minimum 5 sentences) on how 'Energy kites' can overcome some of the challenges related to wind power.
November 11: Here are the 3 pages you may need for your short group presentations, remember to use diagrams or illustrations to help your audience understand you.
November 5: Homework for Tuesday: The capital of Iceland, Reykjavík, is a city that wants to become carbon neutral by 2040. What does carbon neutral mean and what 2 alternative energy sources does it rely on for its energy source? Write a short paragraph to answer the question in your book.
October 31: Continuing on with our solar power presentations and solar models
September 30: thank you to Mr Curtis again for donating his time and expertise. Our short quiz on Tuesday will include content from his talks on electricity and water management, as well as the alternative energy from the virtual lab.
Homework for September 20: Run the following virtual lab on alternative energy sources. Complete the journal questions and the table in your year 8 place based note book. Go though each of the energy sources, read the reference tool and adjust the settings to find the most effective energy output that is the least expensive. Write you observations and journal entries in your book.
smurray@lapazschool.org
June 27: Today you will be with Prof Zuniga. Be good, be polite and work hard.
There are 2 things to finish and hand in today.
1. Go back to google classroom and make sure you have finished your findings and recommendations for Mr Abel. Be very clear and concise, you are required to do at least 5.
2. Task #2: We have talked a lot about local energy, energy production and energy flow. Today we will look at energy and how it flows though ecosystems. With a partner complete the following virtual lab on energy transfer through ecosystems. Start with the first one, if you finish it or cannot load it for any reason begin on the related second one. Be sure to complete all tables and journal questions on a the google doc below.
First:
http://glencoe.mheducation.com/sites/0078778204/student_view0/chapter1/virtual_lab.html
Second:
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_02/BL_02.html
June 13th: Today we finished our ac presentations and energy awareness symbols.
Next week (June 20th) we will have a short AC quiz on the following:
The principle of refrigeration: Basic Refrigeration Cycle.
This will be the quiz question
How does a liquid changing states (liquid to gas back to liquid.......) result in a room cooling down.
maybe this site can help you. DO NOT MEMORIZE. You will need to come up with your own way of explaining how this works, you will be able to draw a diagram to assist you.
https://www.swtc.edu/ag_power/air_conditioning/lecture/basic_cycle.htm
May 30: Good day all. Minor change to the schedule, Mrs Rachel will be with you today, bee good.
Your 'how an air conditioner works' project will be due next week as I am away this week. For today we will begin our La Paz energy usage survey and energy conservation symbol. You have 2 things to do today in your pairs from last week.
Part 1:
In order to help conserve energy at the school we first need to understand the patters of usage. To learn about how teachers use energy we are going to focus on the air conditioners and when/how they are being used.
a. You are to create 5 survey questions that will help us gather the information we need in order to understand how each teacher uses the air conditioners in their room. Here is my example, you have to come up with 5 unique questions that will help us achieve our goal. We will choose the 15 or 20 best ones next week before we conduct the survey
i.e Mr Seans question for Mr Sean: At what temperature do you set the air conditioner thermostat?
Write your 5 questions on a google doc.
Take your time and make sure your questions are grammatically correct, concise and will generate valuable data for our understanding.
Part 2
b. You are likely familiar with the following international symbols........
You and your pair will spend the rest of the period mocking up the first draft of your symbol. The school community will be voting on the most effective one that we can publish. The goal of your symbol is to satisfy in communicating the following:
1.Are you aware if your air conditioner is running?
2. Have you considered if you require the air conditioner at this time or is it on because of habit, because someone else left it running or because it turns on automatically?
Ideally we want people who view your symbol at the entrance of a room to ask themselves if the air conditioner is required or could it be turned down or off?
It can be in color or black and white
This is a great opportunity to be creative, who knows, your symbol may actually become the next international standard for reducing dependence on air conditioners
Your first draft must be hand drawn and on the back you should provide some text outlining your reasoning for why you designed it the way you did.
The symbol and the survey questions will be due next Tuesday along with your air conditioner work.
........................................................................................................
May 23: Mr Sean will be away today. You are to work in pairs to complete the following task, remember I am expecting extended effort this term
Using the following pages as a guide, you are to complete a simple one page description of how an air conditioner works. Your audience are the year 7's so you must use appropriate language and an explanation that they can understand.You will present your understanding next week using only your knowledge and a few board markers, no notes and no slides.
Include a diagram you created to explain how the system works.
Be sure to explain everything in your own words, anything plagiarized (cut and pasted) from the document or online will not be accepted and you will have to repeat the activity at lunch. Be sure to cite any sources that you have used.
http://mocomi.com/how-does-an-air-conditioner-work/
http://mocomi.com/cooling-inventions/
http://energyquest.ca.gov/how_it_works/air_conditioner.html
https://www.bijlibachao.com/air-conditioners/air-conditioner-work-laymans-explanation.html
http://home.howstuffworks.com/ac.htm
March 14: Wind turbine design
https://www.youngscientistlab.com/sites/youngscientistlab.com/files/interactives/wind-energy/
February 28: Today you will be with Miss Amy. Remember to make sure you have your homework done from last period and we will be having a quiz next week after Nicole and Daniels presentation
February 14: view the following animation and make a paragraph summary of how it works in your own words. Include a labelled diagram
https://energy.gov/eere/geothermal/how-geothermal-power-plant-works-simple
January 24: Good day, today you will be with Miss Erika. You know what you have to do for your mini lessons so make sure you use this time wisely.
Remember you are creating a lesson not just a presentation so think about how you plan to conduct the lesson and how much time each part is going to take. You must include:
-General content/information about your chosen alternate energy source
-Country specific content/information about your chosen alternate energy source
-An activity that will enhance the learning experience (a word search is a game not an activity, it should be considered an extra activity but not the main one).
-A review/summary section at the end
Mini lessons will begin next week and will contribute to your progress report grade.
January 3: Happy new year. Today we continued to work on our Alternative energy lessons:
Homework: Read the following article (The second part 'A roadside breeze' by Rachael Pizzolato) and watch the video. Write a paragraph to summarize what she did and write 3 things she said she would do next time to improve on her experiment.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/wind-power-gets-downsized-good-way
November 21: Today you will be with Miss Daniela, you are going to spend a few minutes looking at how to write your letters for your alternative energy presentation. Remember you need to contact 4 countries (Costa Rica, + another Spanish speaking country + 2 others) today you will be working on the Spanish letter. The details of what information you are asking for are in the attached document.
November 18: We have begun our alternative energy presentations. This week we will be creating our letters of information request for 4 countries. You will need to include current innovative solutions in your presentations so for this weeks homework....
For H/W: Visit the site below and read the 4 pages (Home, The challenge, the solution, the technology) and write a summary paragraph (minimum 5 sentences) on how 'Energy kites' can overcome some of the challenges related to wind power.
https://x.company/makani/
November 11: Here are the 3 pages you may need for your short group presentations, remember to use diagrams or illustrations to help your audience understand you.
November 5: Homework for Tuesday: The capital of Iceland, Reykjavík, is a city that wants to become carbon neutral by 2040. What does carbon neutral mean and what 2 alternative energy sources does it rely on for its energy source? Write a short paragraph to answer the question in your book.
October 31: Continuing on with our solar power presentations and solar models
September 30: thank you to Mr Curtis again for donating his time and expertise. Our short quiz on Tuesday will include content from his talks on electricity and water management, as well as the alternative energy from the virtual lab.
Homework for September 20: Run the following virtual lab on alternative energy sources. Complete the journal questions and the table in your year 8 place based note book. Go though each of the energy sources, read the reference tool and adjust the settings to find the most effective energy output that is the least expensive. Write you observations and journal entries in your book.
http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT13/CT13.html
September 13. Continue working on our energy maps of chirripo